Denise Fergus arrives at Burlington House in Crosby, Merseyside, to address the parole hearing of Jon Venables

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The mum of James Bulger today called for a meeting with the Prime Minister following the news her son’s killer will be released from prison.

Denise Fergus, 45, said there needs to be new laws and harsher sentences.

Jon Venables, who was sent back to jail in 2010 after admitting downloading and distributing indecent images of children, was ruled suitable for release by a parole board on Thursday.

The killer was aged 10 when he and classmate Robert Thompson abducted and murdered two-year-old James in February 1993.

In an interview with Channel 5 News, Denise said she felt “let down”.

She said: “More importantly I feel like I’ve let James down because all the fight that I’ve done over the past 20 years.

James Bulger

“I thought I was finally getting somewhere and for them to just push me off that cliff you know, I just can’t believe how I’m getting treated and I don’t know why they’re treating me like this.”

“They messed up once by releasing him. Now they’re doing it again, they’re messing up again. They just don’t know how to handle him. They just don’t want him in their care so what they’re doing is just throwing him back into the public.”

“They couldn’t monitor him the first time, what makes them so sure they’re going to monitor him now?

“They let him slip through their fingers the first time round so no doubt it’s going to happen again.”

Denise, who lives in Kirkby with her husband Stuart and has three other chidren, also said the justice system is inadequate and she wants to meet with David Cameron to talk about it.

“I’d say our law needs changing. We need stricter and stronger sentences. And I do want to meet him [Cameron] because I do want to bring this in.

“I seriously think that we need new laws, stricter sentences, longer sentences because they can’t keep getting away with murder.”

She added that she was worried that innocent people may be targeted in vigilante attacks.

“I’m more fearing now that someone is going to mistake someone else as Venables and do someone who’s innocent harm.”

Robin Makin, lawyer for James’s dad, Ralph Bulger, revealed the Ministry of Justice asked him for suggestions about how to maintain public safety surrounding Venables, but his suggestion of a system of ‘house arrest’ for the 29-year-old fell on deaf ears.

Mr Makin added: “We think he should be in some sort of halfway house where he is accompanied whenever he goes out to the shops, for instance.